If you wish you could go through your morning beauty ritual sitting at a black makeup vanity to spend your days shed yards sales. Instead, you can make your own vanity that looks authentic worn. All you need to transform your current vanity into a faux vintage man is a bit of hardware and a prone to destruction. With these, you will be able to knock down and build up your once untouched vanity in a ridden, shabby chic dream. Instructions Look up your furniture. Use your originality to create hack, bows, cuts and scratches that naturally accumulate on wooden furniture over time. For example, whip your makeup vanity with a chain, smack it with a hammer or scrape it with some old keys. Pay particular attention to the flat-top surface, corners and edges, which are the most likely places for natural wear and tear to occur.